Account Manager
Location: NZ, N, Auckland
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Associate
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Marketing and Advertising
Function: Customer Service

Company profile:
Young &amp; Shand is a full service digital agency that loves a challenge.We’ve made a name for ourselves by creating engaging digital content and leveraging new marketing technology to help NZ businesses grow. We consistently get results with a performance based approach and by ensuring the content we create gets people talking. This has helped us become the country’s fastest growing independent digital agency.How we workOur Auckland office has a full production team, Creative Director, three creative teams, six digital designers and a full development team. As a client, you’ll also have a senior Account Director and an experienced Account Manager working with you day to day and at a strategic level. To ensure everything gets done, we also have our own dedicated team offshore that allows us to work 24 hours a day.Perhaps more important than our production capability is our strategic and creative thinking. Without great thinking you’re only going to get average results. And average is not good enough - we’re only interested in doing world class work that drives results for our clients. That’s why we’ve invested in Ben becoming a New Yorker for 12 months. He’s there to understand what’s happening at the cutting edge of marketing technology so we’re up there with the best.Our environmentLast but not least, we’re a young ambitious company that’s not afraid of hard work. We have a young team that's smart and eager to learn and test the limits of what's possible. We have a real collaborative approach and work together to achieve great results. 

Job description:
We are looking for a new Account Manager as a result of recent client wins. We are ideally looking for someone who has worked in a digital agency or web development environment. The right candidate needs to be comfortable managing their own client accounts (with Account Director support) across a number of industry sectors.The right person will have worked in an agency for two to four years and will have a number of successful client case studies to refer to. In addition the successful candidate will have a passion for digital and demonstrable skills in one or two areas, this could be, social, email, media (SEM or SEO) or managing web development. The role will manage 5-6 key clients and will involve developing client briefs, working with designers and developers to manage projects. A key part of the role will be taking a leadership role for development of website clients. It will also involve managing the social presence for great kiwi brands as well as monitoring media spends and ultimately driving more likes, engagement, traffic, sales and ROI. This is a rewarding role that has a real hands on aspect to it.We're passionate about the clients that we work with and you will have a portfolio of clients that you love. As a business we're focused on developing and introducing new technology to improve marketing and helps us deliver results for our clients.

Requirements:
2 to 5 years experience working in an agency environment.Have a passion for digital marketing and be able to display a competency in one or two technical areas.Be a good writer - social posts and editing newsletter/website copy.Strong on personal time management skills.Comfortable using spreadsheets and presentation software (apple environment)

Benefits:
Growing agency - you'll be working on big projectsGreat team culture - we like to have funLearning enviroment - good development programme